Date: Tue, 30 May 95 13:25:24 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: cgola@ix.netcom.com (Carl Gola) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Questions about Xfree 3.1 Message-ID: <9505301925.AA11551@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199505290438.VAA24040@ix2.ix.netcom.com> from "Carl Gola" at May 28, 95 09:38:03 pm
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> 1) Can I save the way the desktop looks when I exit X-windows. > When I exit and return again the desktop is always in the original > configuration. You can save the location, but not the state -- that is, the applications as they were started on the command line, but not what you did to them after they were started. This depends on applications that behave as they are supposed to within narrowly defined boundries. Applications are supposed to XInternAtom their startup command line arguments, and they are supposed to accept geometry specifications on the command line. There is a program in the ftp.x.org contrib directory that dumps this information to a .xinitrc file for the next time you start X. Can't rememeber the name, since I don't do things this way and few programs are as well behaved as they need to be. This is an X question, and isn't really FreeBSD specific. > 2) What is the proper way to exit X-windows? I have used the exit > option in the pulldown menu but that changes the color to black and > white and I have to go to the login menu and type exit to leave. I have no idea what you are talking about here; it is unclear to me as to whether you mean that you start X and when you exit, you expect to be logged out, or that you have to do several things to get the X server to shut down. If you aren't being auto-logged-out, the problem is that you aren't starting X in your .cshrc/.profile and putting an 'exit' following it. Just like when you exit 'vi' you aren't "automatically logged out". If it's that you have to do too much to get the X server to shut down, the X server exits when the last foreground process in the .xinitrc (usually there is one, and it's usually a window manager, though the default in the X sources is an xterm) exits. If you ensure that the last thing that's started is a foreground window manager, when you exit the window manager, the X server will exit as well. > 3) How can I change the background color of X-windows? Can I have a > bitmap like in Windows (dos). I see there is a directory with bitmaps > but I am not sure how to use them. The backgroungd is specified for windows by using the -bg option; typically, only a desktop manager will allow backrounds in windows themselves. The main background can be set with either xsetroot (bitmaps/colors), xgifroot (an extra app that can do GIFs as backgrounds) or xv (it can do nearly any display file format as a background, with a choice of display processing options. Man "xsetroot" for more info. > 4) I have a Orchid Kelvin video card with 2mg and a 15" Optiquest > monitor. I am still unsure how the setup should be. I looked at the > readme's at FTP.Free86.org but was still confused. Sometimes when I > exit X-windows the display is garbled and there is a mirror image of > the text. Put a larger delay in the switchback by invoking the x server with a sleep following the invocation. This is covered in the release notes. Other configuration problems should go to help or questions @xfree86.org, as noted in the release notes. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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